Test 1
In England, until the middle of the 18th
century there were no:
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А) conflicts of law;
B) common and statutory law systems;
C) interpersonal conflicts;
D) problems in enforcement of judgments
rendered by foreign courts;
• E) problems in autonomy of the parties'
will.
Test 2
The term «international private law»
was first used by:
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А) Joseph Story;
B) Michael Carel Asser;
C) Carl G. Von Wachter;
D) N.P. Ivanov;
E) E. Papinian.
Test 3
The ‘Revolution of Conflict of Laws’
initiated publication of:
• А) the First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws
in the USA 1934;
• B) the materials of the English court practice of
the 1920s’;
• C) the ‘Conflict of laws’ by Joseph Beale in 1935;
• D) the Constitution of the USSR 1936;
• E) the materials of the First Hague Convention on
Private International Law 1893.
Test 4
The doctrine of vested rights derives
from:
• А) the right of the state to recognize the
rights acquired under foreign law;
• B) enforcement by the court only of its
own law;
• C) special material matters of fact;
• D) intertemporal conflicts;
• E) absolute pragmatism.
Test 5
The fundamental principle of the AngloAmerican doctrine of private
international law is:
• А) the territorial principle;
• B) the concept of international comity;
• C) the wide concept of civil procedure
relations;
• D) the nationality principle;
• E) the requirement of the most significant
relationship.
Test 6
The essential tenet of legal realism is:
• А) that law is nothing else but exercising court
functions;
• B) that recognition of the existing law is merely
recognition of existence of some fact;
• C) pragmatism at its highest;
• D) an approach from the point of view of the law
of the forum;
• E) waiving legal principles when solving conflicts
of laws.
Test 7
The subject of international private law
in the Anglo-American doctrine is:
• А) the necessity to establish under which
conditions the local court has jurisdiction
over a civil case with a foreign element;
• B) private law relations with a foreign
element;
• C) any relations connected with foreign
law;
• D) the legal status of foreigners;
• E) procedural status of private persons.
Test 8
The main difference of the Anglo-American
international private law from the European
one is:
• А) a fundamentally different approach to the
correlation of substantive law and conflict of
laws;
• B) in reducing international private law to the
conflicts of law only;
• C) in combination of substantive and procedural
law;
• D) in the statement that international private law
is the law of judges;
• E) in the statement that international private law
is the law of rights.
Test 9
The author of the governmental
interest theory is:
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А) B. Currie;
B) А. Ehrenzweig;
C) W. Cook;
D) L. Duguit;
E) А. Lincoln.
Test 10
The theory of “the choice of result”
method gives grounds for:
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А) freedom of judicial discretion;
B) the autonomy of the parties’ will;
C) the necessity of splitting conflict rules;
D) the category of the international public
order (policy);
• E) mandatory enforcement of the law of
the forum.